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Author Jones, Martha S.

Title All bound up together : the woman question in African American public culture, 1830-1900 / Martha S. Jones.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  E185.86 .J663 2007    Available  ---
Description 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-300) and index.
Contents Female influence is powerful : respectability, responsibility, and setting the terms of the woman question debate -- Right is of no sex : reframing the debate through the rights of women -- Not a woman's rights convention : remaking public culture in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford -- Something very novel and strange : Civil War, emancipation, and the remaking of African American public culture -- Make us a power : churchwomen's politics and the campaign for women's rights -- Too much useless male timber : the nadir, the woman's era, and the question of women's ordination.
Summary This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
Local Note Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement Collection. Funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities through the Women's Suffrage & Beyond Program Award (2020). https://guides.rider.edu/wcsm
Subject African American women political activists -- History -- 19th century.
African American women political activists.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African American women -- History -- 19th century.
African American women.
African American women -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African American women -- Social conditions.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States.
Race relations.
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role.
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women's rights.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Feminism.
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Community life -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Community life.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History.
Subject Gender roles.
Feminism.
Women's movement.
Other Form: Online version: Jones, Martha S. All bound up together. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)697717615
ISBN 0807831522 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807831526 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807858455 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0807858455 (paperback ; alkaline paper)